Before you folks get frothy towards me, remind yourself that the big general mechanic shops include Pep Boys and other parts stores that have mechanics in a shop on the side. They do not specialize in a particular car or specific service.
Obviously you've never owned a Land Rover...try taking that to Pep Boys and tell them you'd like to have the rear windows to roll down all the way, or change the sunroof opening behaviour. It's just a simple little computer setting or two in the "Window Lift ECM" (no, I'm not kidding - there a computer in charge of the windows and sunroofs) - but they won't be able to access it with OBD II codes.
According to the RIAA (and of course they are the ones that will be suing you) this is absolutely without a doubt illegal. Now according to the courts, well, that decision hasn't been made yet.
This was covered in one of the interviews with some RIAA head honcho a few months ago (linked from salshdot somewhere)
I think you'd find it surprising what people don't know about their operating systems in general, even though they may be extremely well versed in certain other computer activites.
It surprises me that my bro-in-law can spreadsheet circles around me in Excel, but when I suggested downloading and installing another browser (mozilla, of course), he couldn't grasp the fact that it was a replacement for IE.
And the typos are all obvious likely typos, so either the person who wrote it is an expert on the kinds of errors typists make (say a professional English teacher or editor) or it's real.
Or maybe he 'typed' it in himself and made legitimate typos?
so if I build a mousetrap and patent it am I patenting the design of the mousetrap or the mousetrap?
If I am patenting the mousetrap, could someone then look at my patent, and sell plans to make the moustrap?
Could they then offer a service to build a mousetrap from the plans they just sold? They really wouldn't be selling a mousetrap, they would be selling the plans of the mousetrap. and then selling a service to fasten bits of metal and wood together according to those plans.
In reality they are selling a mousetrap that I have patented. So did I patent the mousetrap, or the ideas behind the mousetrap?
So I read the article on deuceofclubs - what exactly does that have to do with Free Speech?
Sounds to me like Trademark or copyright violation or maybe even fraud...but not free speech.
If U2 sued them for saying 'U2 Sucks' then that would be about free speech.
And they admitted that they were trying to dupe customers into thinking the album was a U2 album! I can see the point they were trying to make - but don't think they chose the right means to try and make the point.
Timeshifting allows more 'dead' time. For instance there is a TV show I want to watch. I can watch an hour show in 40 minutes if I skip the commercials and even less if I skip any segment of the show I don't want to see.
And yes, commercials can be considered 'dead' time, but I'd rather have 20 minutes of dead time in a row versus 20 minutes of dead time split into 3 minute chunks every 10 minutes.
Don't know about other places, but all the stores here in Phoenix that I've been to don't check the info on your saver card 'application'. My dogs buy a lot of groceries - not sure where they take them though, because the address they used does not exist...
"punt", from American football, "to give up on a failed offensive drive and kick the ball to the other team"
"American Football" - Football historians, those who have studied the game and its origins, place the game's beginnings in rugby, an English game played with many similarities to football. Rugby began in eighteen twenty-three at the famous Rugby Boys' School in England. (from here )
Punting is definitely prevalent in Rugby...so, we are back to Great Britain.
How would you get thousands of units all fire chunks of asteroids in the same direction if the asteroid is rotating? If you fire in all direction the net effect would be pretty much nil.
ummmm - by not ejecting the rocks until they are pointed in the right direction? That kind of sounds like the easy part to me...
Sure it's a cool stunt, but aside from running the Linpack benchmark, what will this pile 'o' pcs do? It will, of course, do nothing, for it will only exist about a day.
So what usefulness is there in going and watching a movie? I'm sure the people that participate will do it because they consider it 'fun'.
I'd rather see an article about broadband users organising themselves into a GLOBUS grid. For that matter, I'd like to see a comprehensive system for bug tracking MPICH (I've seen some weird bugs there). There's lots of things I'd like to see written about or developed. Tomorrows 'infinity + 1' Supercluster ain't it.
So if you don't click on the article, you won't have to read or post a comment about it. If you'd REALLY like to see a bunch of broadband users organising themselves into a globus grid, then start organizing! I'm sure you'll find a bunch of other people that would be interested too...
I gave up the smelly/expensive RC hobby a while ago though, and the last time I flew a plane it wasn't even real.
Electrics have come a LONG way in a short time...takes away the 'smelly' part of RC and some of the newer flying wings are almost indestructable, and cheap to fix if they do destruct.
Not to say you can't still go for the smelly and expensive just that you don't have to anymore.
Hi everybody. It seems I can't afford to pay my mortgage this month, nor do I have enough money to put up a website, so I thought I'd just ask here if you could all send me some money.
spikes in CPU usage generally don't matter when you are monitoring general CPU load. Spikes are expected, and they happen, and if the processor is mostly running at an acceptable load (like under 50%) they don't matter. If the spikes get frequent enough to have an effect on the temperature of the monitor, then they are probably something to be concerned about. You are correct in that it's good to know about them 'sometimes' but most of the time it isn't.
The load avg. on unix machines filter out 'spikes' - so does this device.
Now if you were using something like this on anything important, I'd say you are crazy, but it's a very interesting concept.
and because I know how HTML works and know the whole history behind W3C compatability standards I'll launch IE and look at the site with that. my mother would probably think the website was screwed.
and your mother would be right. If some GCC compiled your C code into binaries that didn't work on x86 processors, would you bitch to Intel to change the processor? Nope, you'd want GCC to spit out correct binaries.
Why doesn't the Mozilla team commit a bit more resource towards polish and user experience and produce a single primary browser with some more bells and whistles and sell/give that away.
That's what 'Mozilla' is. Firefox is the 'next generation' browser that is a 'technological preview'.
I would be hesitant to hire a lawyer unless we're talking about a top-level job (IE: CTO, Director of Technology, etc). If you're going in for a developer position and bring a lawyer in, then they're either going to go on to the next candidate or else bring their lawyer(s) in to the mix.
If they're asking him to sign an employment agreement, then they have offered him a job. To pull that offer because he had a lawyer look over something would be illegal in most places.
So I looked up Second Part to Hell on Google and found his homepage. Checked his 'Articles' list and found some articles that had been supposedly published in some trade mags (ie virus e-zines etc) they seem to check out. Also looked for other links from other virus sites and found some.
It appears to be legit, or a very elaborate hoax that has been a long time (many months or years) making.
He really seems to be more interested in getting around anti virus programs (encrypting batch and javascript files) rather than making users click, which sort of makes sense as there would be nothing to make the user click on if it doesn't get through the server based AV.
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Nobody deserves a free lunch.
Well except the people getting a free lunch illegally grabbing free songs via P2P...right?
Before you folks get frothy towards me, remind yourself that the big general mechanic shops include Pep Boys and other parts stores that have mechanics in a shop on the side. They do not specialize in a particular car or specific service.
Obviously you've never owned a Land Rover...try taking that to Pep Boys and tell them you'd like to have the rear windows to roll down all the way, or change the sunroof opening behaviour. It's just a simple little computer setting or two in the "Window Lift ECM" (no, I'm not kidding - there a computer in charge of the windows and sunroofs) - but they won't be able to access it with OBD II codes.
According to the RIAA (and of course they are the ones that will be suing you) this is absolutely without a doubt illegal. Now according to the courts, well, that decision hasn't been made yet.
This was covered in one of the interviews with some RIAA head honcho a few months ago (linked from salshdot somewhere)
why hook yourself onto the steady IV drip of crap coming into your living room?
when you can be hooked to a steady IV drip of crap coming into your office via the internet?
What makes any of those things you mention better than TV (except maybe the hike because you'd get some exercise)?
They're better because you say they're better?
Depending upon which book you compare to which TV show, the TV show can be a lot more entertaining, educational and thought provoking.
And I KNOW I've had more fun watching TV than I've had on some dates!
I think you'd find it surprising what people don't know about their operating systems in general, even though they may be extremely well versed in certain other computer activites.
It surprises me that my bro-in-law can spreadsheet circles around me in Excel, but when I suggested downloading and installing another browser (mozilla, of course), he couldn't grasp the fact that it was a replacement for IE.
Have you ever opened up MS messenger and clicked on the email message link at the top?
Most links I have open up in firefox - that one opens in IE.
And the typos are all obvious likely typos, so either the person who wrote it is an expert on the kinds of errors typists make (say a professional English teacher or editor) or it's real.
Or maybe he 'typed' it in himself and made legitimate typos?
so if I build a mousetrap and patent it am I patenting the design of the mousetrap or the mousetrap?
If I am patenting the mousetrap, could someone then look at my patent, and sell plans to make the moustrap?
Could they then offer a service to build a mousetrap from the plans they just sold? They really wouldn't be selling a mousetrap, they would be selling the plans of the mousetrap. and then selling a service to fasten bits of metal and wood together according to those plans.
In reality they are selling a mousetrap that I have patented. So did I patent the mousetrap, or the ideas behind the mousetrap?
So I read the article on deuceofclubs - what exactly does that have to do with Free Speech?
Sounds to me like Trademark or copyright violation or maybe even fraud...but not free speech.
If U2 sued them for saying 'U2 Sucks' then that would be about free speech.
And they admitted that they were trying to dupe customers into thinking the album was a U2 album! I can see the point they were trying to make - but don't think they chose the right means to try and make the point.
I'm waiting for a Tivo unit with a DVD/R built-in.
Wait no longer
Pioneer DVD-R with Tivo Built in
Timeshifting allows more 'dead' time. For instance there is a TV show I want to watch. I can watch an hour show in 40 minutes if I skip the commercials and even less if I skip any segment of the show I don't want to see.
And yes, commercials can be considered 'dead' time, but I'd rather have 20 minutes of dead time in a row versus 20 minutes of dead time split into 3 minute chunks every 10 minutes.
The Directv Tivo cannot record(or even buffer) Directv's music channels.
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There's a difference between can't and won't. Won't can be changed to will.
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yep - just stupid and lucrative
Don't know about other places, but all the stores here in Phoenix that I've been to don't check the info on your saver card 'application'. My dogs buy a lot of groceries - not sure where they take them though, because the address they used does not exist...
Of course, many people will probably just assume it's a new model of ATM. Sigh.
So what happens when you DO get a new model of ATM?
"punt", from American football, "to give up on a failed offensive drive and kick the ball to the other team"
"American Football" - Football historians, those who have studied the game and its origins, place the game's beginnings in rugby, an English game played with many similarities to football. Rugby began in eighteen twenty-three at the famous Rugby Boys' School in England. (from here )
Punting is definitely prevalent in Rugby...so, we are back to Great Britain.
How would you get thousands of units all fire chunks of asteroids in the same direction if the asteroid is rotating? If you fire in all direction the net effect would be pretty much nil.
ummmm - by not ejecting the rocks until they are pointed in the right direction? That kind of sounds like the easy part to me...
Sure it's a cool stunt, but aside from running the Linpack benchmark, what will this pile 'o' pcs do? It will, of course, do nothing, for it will only exist about a day.
So what usefulness is there in going and watching a movie? I'm sure the people that participate will do it because they consider it 'fun'.
I'd rather see an article about broadband users organising themselves into a GLOBUS grid. For that matter, I'd like to see a comprehensive system for bug tracking MPICH (I've seen some weird bugs there). There's lots of things I'd like to see written about or developed. Tomorrows 'infinity + 1' Supercluster ain't it.
So if you don't click on the article, you won't have to read or post a comment about it. If you'd REALLY like to see a bunch of broadband users organising themselves into a globus grid, then start organizing! I'm sure you'll find a bunch of other people that would be interested too...
I gave up the smelly/expensive RC hobby a while ago though, and the last time I flew a plane it wasn't even real.
Electrics have come a LONG way in a short time...takes away the 'smelly' part of RC and some of the newer flying wings are almost indestructable, and cheap to fix if they do destruct.
Not to say you can't still go for the smelly and expensive just that you don't have to anymore.
Uh no - that was the Draganflyer III - this is the Draganflyer Predator.
Not only do they have different names, one is a helicopter (or helicopterish thing) and the other is a plane.
Hi everybody. It seems I can't afford to pay my mortgage this month, nor do I have enough money to put up a website, so I thought I'd just ask here if you could all send me some money.
Thanks in advance!
spikes in CPU usage generally don't matter when you are monitoring general CPU load. Spikes are expected, and they happen, and if the processor is mostly running at an acceptable load (like under 50%) they don't matter. If the spikes get frequent enough to have an effect on the temperature of the monitor, then they are probably something to be concerned about. You are correct in that it's good to know about them 'sometimes' but most of the time it isn't.
The load avg. on unix machines filter out 'spikes' - so does this device.
Now if you were using something like this on anything important, I'd say you are crazy, but it's a very interesting concept.
and because I know how HTML works and know the whole history behind W3C compatability standards I'll launch IE and look at the site with that. my mother would probably think the website was screwed.
and your mother would be right. If some GCC compiled your C code into binaries that didn't work on x86 processors, would you bitch to Intel to change the processor? Nope, you'd want GCC to spit out correct binaries.
Why doesn't the Mozilla team commit a bit more resource towards polish and user experience and produce a single primary browser with some more bells and whistles and sell/give that away.
That's what 'Mozilla' is. Firefox is the 'next generation' browser that is a 'technological preview'.
I would be hesitant to hire a lawyer unless we're talking about a top-level job (IE: CTO, Director of Technology, etc). If you're going in for a developer position and bring a lawyer in, then they're either going to go on to the next candidate or else bring their lawyer(s) in to the mix.
If they're asking him to sign an employment agreement, then they have offered him a job. To pull that offer because he had a lawyer look over something would be illegal in most places.
K Cynical....
So I looked up Second Part to Hell on Google and found his homepage. Checked his 'Articles' list and found some articles that had been supposedly published in some trade mags (ie virus e-zines etc) they seem to check out. Also looked for other links from other virus sites and found some.
It appears to be legit, or a very elaborate hoax that has been a long time (many months or years) making.
He really seems to be more interested in getting around anti virus programs (encrypting batch and javascript files) rather than making users click, which sort of makes sense as there would be nothing to make the user click on if it doesn't get through the server based AV.